To Alabama and back

This past weekend my cousin Allyssa and I drove our four children down to Montgomery, Alabama to visit her husband Josh who is in officer training with the Air Force. We left at 7:00 Friday morning, and after 16 hours we arrived at our hotel. Josh was able to get out at 9:30 on Sat. morning and had to go back on Sunday around 4. The weather was beautiful, it was in the 70's all weekend, and the sun was shining:) We went to a lot of kid friendly places so they could release their pent up energy from sitting in the car for hours and hours. On the drive back we split up the drive. We drove 8 hours on Sun. night and spent the night at Allyssa's grandma's house, and then just had six to drive on Monday. The kids were suprisingly good in the car. There were very few bouts of screaming and minimal pinching and fighting. We were thankfully able to use Aunt Diane's DVD player that kept them entertained for hours.

Some of my favorite quotes from the trip:

Elijah - "Raquel, you're making me very angry"

also Elijah to Raquel when she was eating beef jerky "Raquel stop eating dirt!"

Isaac in the car at 10:30 pm "Mom would you like to learn all about sloths?" (it was an option on the Ice Age 2 DVD, one that they watched four times on the way down.)


At the Montgomery Zoo


All ready for bed

It was a gorgeous day, and they got to RUN! (one of Raquel 's favorite things to do:)

Cool Cats

The boys reuniting with their Daddy:)

We got to sleep together for three nights. Yes!

Not one of her finest moments:)